June 15

Restaurant Project

  1. Our Project was to make a restaurant and get people to invest in it, this above is the menu but we also had a estimate profits scale on excel, we had an ad for the “radio”and we created a logo for our company which is named “could be worse”

2. During this project I learned how to use excel, considering I never used it before I found this project very helpful to learn the basics.

3. I am most proud of our menu, I think we did very well on creating a realistic menu and we also made another menu just for kids that had smaller portions.

4. I think the only thing that we did not do well on the menu is the diversity, most of the food was pretty similar and the kids menu did not have many new things but they did have different sizes for the food.

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June 14

Word Project

  1. This project is suppose to be a brochure type to attract tourists to visit the selected country, for my country I have selected the republic of Ireland as my country.
  2. In this project I learned how you can use a watermark as a background that still makes it easy to see the text. I found it very helpful using different styles for a proper layout.
  3. I am very proud of the text based part of the project. I feel I did very well on giving a proper layout and making it easy to navigate.
  4. I feel that my photos used could have been improved, some were pretty bland and not that impressive.
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June 14

My PowerPoint Project

  1. This project was about making a working website with power point keeping its limitations. I made a website for a gaming hardware store.
  2. In this project I learned how to work the master slide section of power point and how I can make all of them the same background, buttons etc..
  3. For my project I was very proud of the fact that there was never a time you felt lost, I feel it was easy to navigate and fun to explore.
  4. I think for the project I could have improved on the buying aspect it was very bland and didn’t work to well but it ended up working.
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June 13

Math 9 Misleading Statistics by Brandon and Rylee

Influence of collected data

Bias: Already being in favour of one side, Ex: Most people agree that smoking is bad for you and could kill you, do you agree?

Use of Language: Wording a sentence in an easy to understand way. Ex: Are sweatshops good or bad?

Ethics: Are you trying to show the truth? Ex: If there was a poll for the best shoe companies and you can check more than one, but the companies says that 80% of people check yours so you say that but, they also check other things.

Cost: Does it cost more to make the survey than what you get back?

Time and timing:  The information is collected at an inappropriate time that would impact the people’s choice. Ex: If you asked Fort McMurray residents if the government should increase fire support.

Privacy: Is the graph kept confidential, do the people have a right to refuse answering the question

Cultural sensitivity: Maybe the graph had a question that offended people from different cultures

Explain the difference between a population and a sample:

Population:   A population is a group of objects that have things in common which is relevant to the data being collected. The point of a statistical population is to collect information about a chosen population

Sample:  A sample is a set of objects chosen from a complete sample in a random order example: choosing every 10th person who walks through the door. The point of a sample is to collect data that is unbiased.

Explain the different types of sampling methods and the benefits of each

Convenience sample:  Made up of people who are easy to reach or contact. Benefit is that the survey will probably be finished quickly. Ex: a survey interviews shoppers at a local mall. If the mall was close to the surveyors business this would be considered a convenience sample.

Random:  Chosen in a random order or way. Names in a hat then the person is blindfolded and picks a name. A good thing is that the data will be random and not biased.

Voluntary response: This type of response can easily become bias because the sample members are self-selected for example on the radio when you hear people call in to talk about things like gun control, of course they will chose to be against it because that was what the show was talking about.

Stratified sample: The population is separated into groups based on similar things, then ask a few people from that group. (Ex: male and females, children and adults, similar interests)

Systematic sample: This is where you divide the population size by the desired sample size. This can be bias because they can choose only people who agree with the company. For example: A shoe company starts a poll to see who their favourite shoe company is but, they only ask from the people who frequent their store.

). Give examples. Explain how choosing an inappropriate sampling method may bias the data. Give Examples

Explain the difference between theoretical and experimental probability.

Theoretical Probability:  The number of ways a situation could play out, divided by the total number of outcomes. Basically it’s what are the odds of an event happening. What is expected to happen based on the outcomes. Example: a shoebox has 10 red shoelaces, 8 blue shoelaces, and 2 yellow shoelaces. What is the theoretical probability of picking a blue shoelace?

Experimental Probability:  The ratio of the amount of times a situation occurs to the total number of times the event is performed. The result of a situation after a number of trials. Example: a box contains 10 pink stuffed animals, 8 purple stuffed animals, and 2 blue stuffed animals. What is the experimental probability of picking a blue marble?

Find 3 examples (different from the examples already discussed in class) of misleading statistics used in the media and explain why they are misleading

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This statistic was obviously made by someone who is either selling houses or works in the industry because they are trying to show that the prices barely moved in scale but in reality prices went up 10 000

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This statistic makes it seem like Clinton was way worse than Bush for unemployment but if you look at the numbers they are barely different they did not start the numbers at 0.

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This statistic is misleading because they started the graph at 7% if it started at 0 it would look like a lot less, they zoomed in on the top.

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April 21

My Blender Project

Blender Scene

In my project I created and animated a toy in blender. I made a toy truck that drove around the road and was loosing the blocks in the back of his truck. At the end all the blocks ended up falling out and the truck fell over.

During this project it was my first time ever using blender so pretty much everything we did was new to me. But the things that stood out to me were learning how to shape a terrain  using certain tools and getting my camera to follow the truck.

I really enjoyed making the scene in my project. It took me some time to get the hang of it but I think it turned out really successful. I am proud of what I made but, I think the textures could have been better but they were decent for the level of skill I am at for this program.

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April 21

My Photoshop Movie Poster

Poster

In this project I put in many skills into this project from learning how to change the opacity and burn things to making text glow. I used many photoshop tools to make it look like “Rey” was holding a light saber. And how I put myself in the poster.

While making this project I learned how to properly burn objects and fix the glow of light sabers so they don’t shine to bright but aren’t so dark..

In this project I really enjoyed taking a picture of myself and making it so I look like a Jedi Sith.

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February 17

Scratch Movie Scene

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/96272040/

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I chose to recreate this movie because it was one of my favorite childhood movies of all-time. For its time it was a very interesting concept for the human race and I found it super funny!

Because I learned how to make sprites appear and disappear it made it way easier to finish this project on time.

When making this movie I learned how to put my voice in the movie! I used sounds as voice memos which made it easier for me.

During the making of this project it was lots of fun recording my voice and making the sounds, I was with my little brother and we were just laughing and laughing listening to my homemade sound affects!

 

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February 5

My Scratch Project

My game is called Bouncy Bullet, the base of the game is to shoot down the targets, but as in  the name of the game I force in some invisible walls and make it so you have to bank shot the bullets. But watch out on where you shoot because you do not want to shoot yourself. I have 3 levels and a victory level. All levels are possible but the last one has a 10% clear rate. It is very hard because even if you knock down the target you can still die.

What you did to make it? I had to use the hide and show feature a lot in this game, it took me awhile to understand how to perfect the game. The most challenging part was trying to code the bullet and make it bounce off everything.

In the end I learned how to make objects disappear and reappear when backgrounds switch, how to make a object bounce off of a sprite and how to embed a game.

 

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